Unit Title: World War II Grade Level(s): grades 9-diploma Subject/Topic Area(s): History WWII Key Words: WWII, Social Studies Designed by: Michael Diffin Time Frame: 23 classes School District: RSU 9 School: Mt Blue High School
Brief Summary of Unit
In this unit students will understand how WWII altered how the world looks at itself and each other, that WWII affected Communities in the world, and that WWII had specific impacts on political processes and developments. They will be asked such essential questions as How did WWII shift world view? How were regional communities affected by WWII? Why were political processes and developments affected by WWII? By the end of the unit they will be expected to demonstrate political processes of different nations, document world views of Post WWII, exhibit how communities Changed, compare and contrast pre and post political processes of axis nations, relate to community members after WWII, and realize how they saw the world as a result of WWII. by the end of the unit the students will be expected to know Important People such as Hitler, Truman, Roosevelt, Mussolini, Hirohito, Churchill, Chiang Kai-Shek, Stalin, Dwight Eisenhower, Important Events such as Normandy, Pearl Harbor, Iwo Jima, Bastogne, Giulino di Mezzagra, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Rape of Nanking, sino-japanese war, soviet union, Poland, Austria, England, Israel, Afrika Korps, ardennes, Auschwitz, the battle of Britain, the battle of the bulge, Berlin, concentration camps, gestapo, Guadalcanal, Hitler youth, holocaust, shoah, Leningrad, Sudetenland, Manhattan project, Marina islands, battle of midway, Okinawa, Warsaw ghetto, Yalta conference, atomic bomb, Japanese internment, Potsdam conference, German instrument of surrender, Japanese instrument of surrender, Italian instrument of surrender, and Vocabulary such as Allies, Axis, The Big Three, Fascism, Totalitarian, Nazi, U-Boat, D-Day, V.E. Day, V.J. Day, democracy, socialism, communism, proportional representation, monarchy, imperialism, people to people relations
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Unit Title: World War II Grade Level(s): grades 9-diploma
Subject/Topic Area(s): History WWII
Key Words: WWII, Social Studies
Designed by: Michael Diffin Time Frame: 23 classes
School District: RSU 9 School: Mt Blue High School
Brief Summary of Unit